Description

You Lead the Way. Weve Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether were supporting our customers financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining whats possible and were proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day.

We are looking for a Senior EngineeringManager, Mobile to drive the delivery of new mobile features (iOS and Android), capabilities and advancement of mobile platform via innovative mobile technology tools and practices for the American Express global membership mobile app.

We are looking for someone with strong technical skills for mobile app development (iOS and Android), sense for creativity and passion for building beautiful mobile apps. You should enjoy solving complex technical problems and working with newer technologies. Also, youshould be a huge advocate for building amazing user experiences, beautiful code and craftsmanship.

You will be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mission is to be essential in our Customers digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight wherever they are. Your primary responsibilities will be to lead a team of engineers developing mobile applications that will be used by tens of millions of American Express Customers around the world. You should have expertise building mobile apps using modern software development methodologies and be able to dive deep and rapidly iterate on ideas despite ambiguity. You will be working in a fast-paced environment with the stability of working for a Fortune 100 company. This leader will encompass a unique blend of strong leadership and an in-depth engineering skillset especially with modern application development technologies for building high quality and delightful mobile experiences.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of highly talented mobile engineers to build and deliver the mobile roadmap in the areas pertaining to - redesign of enterprise mobile app, new information architecture, native design language, consistent mobile UI patterns, building scalable mobile search and many other features to bring the customer experiencesto life via the mobile app

• Responsible to build the mobile features using the right iOS and Android architectural patterns to ensure scalability and robustness

• Work with mobile product development closely to understand the product and customer needs; and enable the product and customer vision for the company

• Contribute to advance the mobile platform to improve developer efficiency

• Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams

• Cultivate an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics

• Recruit best in class and diverse mobile talent from the industry

• Drive innovation within a fast-paced agile environment

• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools/methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps

• Collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders within business and technology teams to drive change required to execute product roadmaps

• Coach, guide and promote creation of high quality, clearly documented, and compliant deliverables across engineering teams

• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and execute the development schedule for major product releases

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. Amex offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Solid experience building and leading native Mobile App development (iOS / Android)

• Mobile UI/UX experience using Apples Human Interface Design and Google Material Design

• Experience building out consumer-facing products and platforms for mobile apps with high performance, availability and high scalability

• Experience managing software engineering teams designing and building software products in a fast-paced, complex and dynamic software development environment

• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing the development of complex, large scale applications and products that require a deep understanding of application logic and dependencies

• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring and guiding for highly talented technical teams

• Experience attracting, hiring retaining and leading top engineering talent

• Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required

• University Degree in computer science, or engineering-related field required

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. Thats why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e., 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J) in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Job: Technology

Primary Location: United States

Other Locations: US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 22023721